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Gabrielle N. Pfund

@gabriellepfund.bsky.social
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Asst Prof in HDFS @ Auburn | Postdoc @ Northwestern | PhD @ WashU | purpose development & measurement / how they connect to cognitive health, well-being, & social relationships in daily life & over time (sometimes thru a personality psych lens) | she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
me: *trying to provide feedback on a google doc* coauthors after every comment:
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Cute Cat Peeks from Door and Says Hi
Alt: white cat pushes open a sliding door with its paw and pops its head out
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Don't fall into this Republican trap.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/07/2026
The midterms are just 99 days away. That means it’s time to kickoff our nationwide program to make sure every eligible voter is able to cast their ballot and have it counted. Join our national call to learn how you can help ensure free and fair elections this fall.
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Hands Off Our Vote! · Indivisible
Join Indivisibles across the country for the kickoff call for Hands Off Our Vote, Indivisible’s national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot, and that those ballots get coun...
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
THEY MADE CARTER SELL HIS FARM
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Peer Review Congress #PRC11 Coming 2029! @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The ERROR project recruits independent experts to recheck social sciences papers’ data, statistics, methodology, code; now the project plans to publish the reviews in a new peer-reviewed journal. science.org/content/arti... @dalmeet.bsky.social @science.org #reproducibility
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Offering scientists cash to spot errors in published papers doesn’t work
The ERROR project tried enticing reviewers with payments. Now, it’s launching a journal—and promising papers as rewards
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It is deeply stupid that this is happening. Not to mention entirely avoidable.
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Update: the lack of date is *not* normal & *is* a bad sign :')
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"The White House seeks to slash the NSF budget by nearly 55%, to $4 billion. The proposal also cuts all funding for the NSF division that funds research on the social sciences and economics. At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely. The NSF’s budget request to Congress states that the agency will shut down the SBE but maintain SBE “grants that align with Administration priorities, such as in behavioral and cognitive science, and all impacted employees will be transferred to other parts of the agency.”"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"The third No Kings protests were an unmistakable display of political force..." "Two-thirds of participants live in suburban, small town or rural areas, a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Red flare for Trump: 'No Kings' rallies a show of political force
With a Revolutionary-era slogan, the protests had an historic geographical reach across the country. What does that mean for November?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
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Not a porpoise but a ... @silverporpoise.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A great idea for those of use that can’t physically march.
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Apparently, every 3 years, I write a purpose theory paper! In 2020, I wrote about how purpose fits into personality psych. In 2023, I wrote about if/how purpose meets Allport's criteria for a trait. In 2026, I'm excited to share a paper on purpose as a state! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The State of State Purpose: What We Know and Need to Know About Purpose in Daily Life
PDF | This review summarizes the current state of the state purpose literature. I begin this article by describing what purpose is and the benefits of... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Uuuhhh is it normal for the NSF Social Psychology grant not to have a deadline listed? I'm still new to the ins and outs of grant apps so this could be totally normal--it's just hard to know with *waves hands vaguely in all directions*. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/03/2026
“The uprising within DLR Group isn’t the only example of workers pushing back on their employers’ business dealings with ICE—but it may be one of the more successful ones.”
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Top architecture firm won’t design more ICE prisons after employees revolt
They thought their firm focused on humane design. Then they learned of the private detention center contract.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Trump’s own counterterrorism chief has resigned over the Iran war. Joseph Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, wrote in a letter addressed directly to Donald Trump that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/03/2026
“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.” One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.
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Top architecture firm won’t design more ICE prisons after employees revolt
They thought their firm focused on humane design. Then they learned of the private detention center contract.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
the misery of catching up on emails after a week away :')
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a crying cat is giving a thumbs up with the word ok below it
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Nobody ever: Journal: *rejects manuscript* We care about your opinion! Please fill out this brief survey telling us about your experience with our journal!!!
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Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I recently learned about the app 5 Calls. By putting in your address and select an issue you care about, it provides you the number of your representatives and a script on an issue. Calling is one of the best way to make our voices heard. It took me two mins to call both my senators.
Ability to see calls being made on your issue and overall through the app List of issues on the 5 Calls app to select from after providing zip code Script provided for selected issue with phone number of senator; mark whether you made contact after calling
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I am happy to report that everyone is right and that teaching a course the second time around *is* 10x easier* *fingers crossed I don't regret saying this later in the semester
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jerry from tom and jerry is crying with tears of joy written underneath him
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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026
New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted "There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota."
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Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted
Doing nothing is not an option.
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New paper in Dev Psych with @emily-willroth.bsky.social & Tammy English! Momentary sense of purpose is higher & stabler in older adults than young adults--regardless of cognitive status. Though these fluctuations differ, what predicts them is fairly consistent. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/01/2026
130,000 Alabamans are about to lose their health insurance as a direct result of the “One big beautiful bill”, and a Florida man is tweeting like it’s some kind of win. If you live in the state, call Sen. Tuberville and tell him what’s on your mind: 202-224-3121
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/01/2026
1. This weekend, far-right group Lets Go Washington announced that it had collected enough signatures to get a trans sports ban on the ballot in the state. The bill includes genital inspection provisions. It is one of the first to go forward in a blue state. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trans Sports Ban With Genital Inspections Gains Enough Signatures To Appear On Washington State Ballot
The initiative collected 400,000 signatures, and will be one of the first major attempts to get an anti-trans law onto the ballot in a state that has dubbed itself a "refuge" for transgender people.
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
me opening my email this morning
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a man in a white shirt and tie is standing in an office .
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Kyrsten Costlow Hill, PhD @kyrstenhill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Job alert! 📣 The UCCS Aging Center, our psychology training clinic serving older adults and their families, is seeking a full time Director. Follow the link for more info and please share with any potential candidates! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Director - UCCS Aging Center
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/12/2025
1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban. A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months. Our latest story here:
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Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Imminent As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule
The new federal rule formalizes previous threats to hospitals to pull Medicaid funding, and represents a significant legal stretch by this administration.
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
*in Mariah Carey voice* All I want for Christmas iiiIiiiiIiiiiis…. For you not to send me any review requests until after the new year!
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Journal: you are at max word count—do not make your manuscript longer. Every reviewer ever: can you please add X, Y, & Z?
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Awhhh thank you journal who just published my research for giving me a 30% discount to access the journal that my research is published in. How thoughtful.
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Williams Institute @williamsinstitute.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Our research finds that LGBTQ students are more likely to choose to attend colleges away from their families and seek a more welcoming environment than their non-LGBTQ peers. Read the full report: bit.ly/LGBTQ4yrcollege
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Nature @nature.com · 08/12/2025
Susan Monarez was fired after less than a month as Director of the CDC for holding the line on scientific integrity She is part of Nature's 10 - our list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/48FnHpx
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The top US health director who stood up for science — and was fired
Susan Monarez is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
One of my final slides from my final lecture of the semester :-)
Picture of Gabrielle's miniature schnauzer sitting in front of tv; tv screen shows a picture of a miniature schnauzer at a national dog competition. they do not look like the same breed (though Gabrielle, perhaps with bias, thinks her dog is cuter)
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This is all-hands on deck. RFK Jr. wants to destroy vaccination in the US. COVID and HBV vaccination were the first step. These diseases WILL come back. And your personal vaccination status is important, but so is the coverage in your community. So up your game and fight. www.vox.com/2015/3/25/82...
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The lives vaccines have saved in the US, in one chart
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...
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Fade Eadeh, Ph.D. @feadeh.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Friends of Arab and Muslim descent, please fill out our survey! Please share!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Great! Now how do the American people get back the billions we had to pay in higher prices everywhere?
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Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk? Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus. Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️ 🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/12/2025
RFK Jr. and his anti-vax ACIP are responsible for doing harm to generations of Americans living in the shadow of his anti-science leadership, and Hep. B is just the tip of the iceberg It's time for Congress to impeach and remove RFK Jr. No ifs, no buts. Enough is enough. #ImpeachtheQuack
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The skill I've developed the most in academia is not critical thinking, coding, writing, but becoming desensitized to rejection. Oh, another grant rejection? Bummer, onto the next email. 🥲
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing. THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I missed this from a couple of weeks ago, but if you're an NIH-funded investigator, please read. Peer review will exist to make things look legitimate, but can, and will, be over-ruled. Funding decisions, ultimately, will be done by political appointees. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions | Grants & Funding
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
You don’t say. It’s almost as if locking up immigrants with criminal records wasn’t the point.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
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Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
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Gabrielle N. Pfund @gabriellepfund.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Reviewer: This sentence doesn't make sense. Me: What do you meeeeean that this sentence doesn't makes sense?!?!?!? *reads sentence* Me: This sentence doesn't make sense.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/12/2025
As the Trump administration carries out its immigration crackdown, Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos.
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Remembering WW2 Camps, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos.
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